Vitaly Votanovsky

Affiliated media: Telegram channel Titushki in Krasnodar, Administrator

Incident date: April 5, 2023

Attack type:

• Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar

Additional information:

Former volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters in Krasnodar, a military pensioner and author of the Telegram channel Titushki in Krasnodar Vitaly Votanovsky has left Russia. According to Votanovsky, two criminal cases are being fabricated against him at once: about «discrediting» the army and about participation in an «undesirable» organisation (Articles 280.3 and 280.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In February, Votanovsky started receiving threats after he published a photo from the cemetery of PMC Wagner.